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<div class="field field-name-field-published field-type-date field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="collex:date" datatype="gYearMonth"><span class="date-display-single" property="collex:date" datatype="gYearMonth" content="2000-11-01T00:00:00-05:00">November 2000</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-resource-index field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/praxis/containment/index.html">The Containment and Re-deployment of English India</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-fulltext"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div align="center">
<h2>The Containment and Re-Deployment of English India</h2>
<h3>Introduction</h3>
<h4>Daniel J. O'Quinn, University of Guelph</h4>
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<p>If we are to understand Romanticism as an institutional nexus with cultural, political and social effects then the challenge of articulating the relationship between literary culture and emergent forms of governmentality travels by way of the Indian sub-continent. This volume of <i>Romantic Praxis</i> started as a somewhat polemical intervention in the 1997 NASSR conference at McMaster University which operated under <a href="/praxis/containment/intro/landscape.html"><img name="image1" src="/sites/default/files/imported/praxis/containment/intro/images/landscapetn.jpg" alt="The Pass of Sichi Gulley " align="right" width="125" height="125" vspace="1" hspace="6" border="0" id="image1"/></a>the thematic rubric of "Romanticism and its Others." I proposed a session on English India aimed not only at questioning the belatedness of colonial discourse analysis in Romantic studies, but also at re-orienting this emergent interest to questions of institutional effects. The recent discussions regarding the redefinition of Romanticism as the period between 1750 and 1850 for the purposes of staving off the institutional encroachments of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while largely a matter of public relations, pose urgent political questions regarding the spatial and temporal reach of Romantic studies. Within that temporal frame where precisely does one locate British literature?</p>
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<p>At the risk of making the efforts of my contributors bear more weight than they were designed to bear, I want to approach this question historically in order to sketch one possibility for the "patient labor required for our impatient demand for liberty" (133). Invoking the final sentence of Foucault's "What is Enlightenment?" has a multiple purpose here. The salient feature of Kant's famous essay is his emphasis on how asking historico-philosophical questions of the present necessarily poses questions regarding the state and, more particularly, the art of government. The historical period presided over&#8212;at least in part&#8212;by the academic construct Romanticism marks a crucial moment when, according to Foucault ("Governmentality"), Ann Laura Stoler, and Ian Hunter, key aspects of governmentality were increasingly detached from the state form. The complex deployment of sexuality which features so prominently in the emergence of bio-political forms of governance and the consolidation of state racism animates much of the cultural, social and material production in both colony and metropole. However, these re-alignments in economic and social policy, whose impact on representations both political and aesthetic is profound, remain unelaborated despite important historical and literary scholarship over the last ten years.</p>
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<p>Part of the impulse for this volume was rememorative, for even a cursory glance at the popular print media from 1765 to 1813 indicates the extent to which the metropolitan population was concerned with governmental matters in India. As H. V. Bowen <a href="/praxis/containment/intro/gwalior.html"><img name="image2" src="/sites/default/files/imported/praxis/containment/intro/images/gwaliortn.jpg" alt="A View of the Fort of Gwalior" align="left" width="125" height="125" vspace="1" hspace="6" border="0" id="image2"/></a>has persuasively argued the metropolitan population was extraordinarily ignorant not only of the culture of the peoples colonized by the East India Company, but also of the economics of colonial activity. However, despite this sanctioned ignorance the interest in the regulation and management both of people and capital was both detailed and wide-ranging. The public scandals surrounding Clive and Hastings and the celebration of Cornwallis and later administrators of imperial power speak to differing colonial problematics, but in all instances one sees a repeated subordination of the fact of colonial violence to the form and constitution of colonial regulation. The transference of English colonial activity from the East India Company to the British state was arguably as significant as the American revolution&#8212;albeit in different ways&#8212;for the necessary re-imagination of the British imperial project. Like the impact of the American revolution on British self-stylization, the cultural negotiation with the Indian sub-continent requires a significant re-engagement with the problem of nationhood and of the state. I raise the historical spectre of the American colonies because the careful modulation of revolutionary constituent power into its constituted form so admirably detailed by Antonio Negri is matched by a reverse phenomenon in the British metropole wherein the statization of the colonial economy is undertaken to avoid future tears in the map of empire. We could see the cultural work of Romanticism as a correlative
prophylactic venture whose legacy is still operative.</p>
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<p>The endurance of that prophylaxis forces me somewhat reluctantly to enter the realm of intemperate polemic which is of course always haunted by discomfort. To state the issue bluntly: is the belatedness of our discipline's response to the challenge of post-coloniality constitutive of romantic praxis both historically and in our present moment? The discomfort here goes beyond the fact that the question immediately prompts a list of valuable essays and books written by scholars to whose efforts we are all indebted. If it were simply a matter of generating a discipline-exonerating bibliography&#8212;i.e. if it were simply a question of knowledge&#8212;then there would be no need for this demonstration of embarrassment. However, the discomfort goes beyond that of knowledge into the realm of ethics and as such demands that we address the question's disturbing assertion. I believe we must consider the belatedness as a strategy of avoidance that both conceals and reveals the use of history in imperial discourse that emerges with Romanticism itself.</p>
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<p>After all, the British functionaries of the East India Company and the writers who represented India for the metropolitan audience tended to need a similar historical displacement. The best indicator here is perhaps the first volume of <i>Asiatick Researches</i> for it reveals a fascination with the archeological, the lost and barely recoverable. And yet, especially in the case of William Jones, this sense of coming too late emerges out of a desire to develop strategies for managing colonial populations, for circumventing the role of the Pandits in the administration of the law by predating them. The sense of coming too late to an already tightly woven social fabric is the perennial problem of conquest and colonization for the very economics of trade rely on mediations which despite all assertions otherwise, involve social interaction. What is interesting about Jones&#8212;and what perhaps explains why he receives so little attention in our current historical moment&#8212;is the degree to which he emphasizes the necessary and difficult task of thinking through the colonial problematic in a world historical frame. That task, as Jones demonstrates, requires an extraordinary level of historical knowledge and linguistic facility. Len Findlay's "'[T]hat Liberty of Writing': Incontinent Ordinance in 'Oriental' Jones," which opens this collection, gives an ample sense of the depth of Jones's learning and emphasizes an underappreciated aspect of Jones's career&#8212;i.e. that his activities both prior to and during his involvement with the East India Company are fundamentally connected to the history of liberalism. The desire for "freedom" and its collateral violence are mutually constitutive in ways that read all too readily into our present geopolitical circumstances. Intriguingly, the current neo-liberal rhetoric of globalization amounts to a re-vivification of a position rendered temporarily obsolete by the early nineteenth century. By the time of Macauley's "Minute
on Indian Education," the metropole's patience for such a difficult engagement had elapsed and Jones's legal translations lost their value as colonial tools and were re-designated as examples of arcane knowledge. It is this shift from tool to scholarship that deserves our attention for Jones's work is superceded by far more instrumental forms of knowledge production. In the realm of linguistics, British attention shifts from Sanskrit to vernacular languages. As Rita Raley argues in "A teleology of Letters; or, from a 'Common Source' to a Common Language," that shift is indicative of a change in governmental relations. If Jones's activities could be seen as a strategy suited to the governing practices of the East India Company which operated through the mobilization of alliances and resentments of pre-existing power structures, then Gilchrist's investment in the use value of translation and language acquisition is an apt expression of the erasure of the pre-colonial India presupposed by the administration of the colony by the British state. To quote Gilchrist's shockingly precise epigraph to <i>Dialogues, English and Hindoostanee</i>: "What <i>spell</i> have ARMS, with useless Tongues when led/ Or Lion's hearts&#8212;without a HUMAN head."</p>
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<p>Lest we have any desire to flee from Gilchrist's instrumental reason to Jones's seemingly less ethnocentric studies, it is important to recognize that what has changed is the use-value of the knowledge produced. The de-valuation of Jones's<a href="/praxis/containment/intro/view.html"><img name="image3" src="/sites/default/files/imported/praxis/containment/intro/images/viewtn.jpg" alt="A View of Calcutta" align="right" width="125" height="125" vspace="1" hspace="6" border="0" id="image3"/></a> historico-archeological approach to Indian culture needs to be understood as a shift in the use of history for the imperial state. Put reductively, the decision to govern in addition to trade carried with it an imperative to eliminate the history of the sub-continent rather than to manipulate it. The long, complex and ultimately impossible task of elimination was the object of various educational strategies which sought either to suppress local knowledges or replace them with new imperially-sanctioned ones.<sup><a href="#n1" name="back1" id="back1">[1]</a></sup> However, for students of British Romanticism, the devaluation of the use value of Indian history for direct political manipulation is crucial, for it opens an entire exotic field of representation for redeployment in the metropole as commodities ripe for exchange in the market of entertainment. This sense of the commercial viability of Eastern materials for Romantic verse has been well documented with regard to Byron and Thomas Moore.<sup><a href="#n2" name="back2" id="back2">[2]</a></sup> But Byron's famous remarks are amply preceded by a series of aesthetic materials which have their roots in quasi-anthropological and historical writings generated under the aegis of the East India Company, but which reduce and re-constitute the materials of Indian history in order to regulate largely metropolitan concerns. Texts like Sydney Owenson's <i>The Missionary</i>, or Elizabeth Hamilton's <i>Translations of the Letters of the Hindu Rajah</i>, or the various Eastern plays of Elizabeth Inchbald do more
than generate stereotypical representations of Indian society that anchor British imperial practice.</p>
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<p>Close attention to any of these texts reveals that they are far more concerned a) with constructing heteronormative representations of bourgeois life and b) with allegorizing geographically more proximate colonial crises. In other words, the "liberation" of representations of Indian history from their role in the direct governance of British-Indian relations allows them to be re-deployed in the regularization of the heterosexual family <i>and</i> in the struggle over Irish political autonomy. In this light, the liberal project inherent in Jones's work outlined by Findlay re-emerges in Owenson and Moore's allegorization of Irish affairs and in Hamilton and Inchbald's feminist practice. Susan Taylor's "Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore's <i>Lalla Rookh</i>" and my own essay on James Cobb's <i>Ramah Droog</i> demonstrate how deeply intertwined the questions of sexual and colonial governance are in these allegories of Irish affairs. In both Moore's poem and in Cobb's comic opera, discursive details of Eastern life are mobilized for political ends thoroughly disconnected from their sub-continental locale. And yet the sexual fantasies which traverse both works build on racially constructed notions of middle class life that, as Ann Laura Stoler has persuasively argued, are not only operative in the colonies, but also the object of intense state intervention.</p>
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<p>The relationship between these state interventions and the production of metropolitan romance is addressed in Siraj Ahmed's essay on Owenson's <i>The <a href="/praxis/containment/intro/zananah.html"><img name="image4" src="/sites/default/files/imported/praxis/containment/intro/images/zananahtn.jpg" alt="A View of the Inside of a Zananah" align="left" width="125" height="125" vspace="1" hspace="6" border="0" id="image4"/></a>Missionary</i> and the history of missionary practice following parliament's lifting of the ban on missionary work during the reign of the East India Company. Ahmed's essay "An Unlimited Intercourse": Historical Contradictions and Imperial Romance in the Early Nineteenth Century" carefully charts the redeployment of a historical narrative of violent conflict to British hegemony in Vellore and argues that the romance plays a key role in the metaphorical containment of colonial insurrection. What Ahmed's essay so beautifully demonstrates, however, is that Owenson's romance simultaneously empties the colonial encounter of its historical content and embodies in its form the contradiction at the heart of the concept of civil society&#8212;i.e. that it always has its origins in violent acts. <i>The Missionary</i>, therefore, both occludes and reveals the violence of the "civilizing mission" that characterized Britain's governmental activities.</p>
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<p>Ahmed's attention to the language of civil society, Findlay's discussion of the role of "liberty" in Jones's text, Raley's discussion of the instrumentality of Gilchrist's linguistics, Taylor's demonstration of the commutability of colonial discourses and my own emphasis on the spectral presence of Cornwallis in <i>Ramah Droog</i> indicate the degree to which theories of statecraft animate this literature. Kate Teltscher's essay "Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-1781" demonstrates the integral relation between these supposedly public activities and the practice of everyday life. Teltscher's incisive readings of the literariness of the letters between the first British envoy to Bhutan and Tibet and his sisters reminds us that the force-field of colonial relations is subtended by the flow of intimate correspondence and material goods. The terms of this intimacy are revealing for time and again the details of Bogle's commercial and diplomatic activities are displaced either by re-figuring historical events as rehearsals of favourite literary scenes or by focussing on the things&#8212;clothing and rooms&#8212;that surround his mission. The fact that the commercial mission is so highly mediated by literary antecedents should give us pause for like <i>The Missionary</i> in Ahmed's argument, Bogle's letters both conceal the political aspects of his journey and reveal precisely how the realm of political and foreign affairs penetrates the realm of the domestic sphere. The affect generated by Bogle's letters becomes finally indistinguishable from the political project of colonization.</p>
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<p>This affective interface is crucial to an understanding of the history of the British involvement in India for it shifts from being a mechanism of displacement in letters like Bogle's to being part of a regulatory technology. The institutional translation of "civil society" to Indian peoples throughout the Raj depends on this inculcation of emotion as an aesthetic and a political effect. The essays collected here attempt to give some sense of the power of emotion for the emergent imperial capitalism that defines Romanticism.</p>
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<p>Notes</p>
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<p class="indent"><a name="n1" href="#back1" id="n1"><sup>1</sup></a>&#160;&#160;See Viswanathan.</p>
<p class="indent"><a name="n2" href="#back2" id="n2"><sup>2</sup></a>&#160;&#160;See Leask.</p>
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<p class="hang">Bowen, H.V. "British India, 1765-1818: The Metropolitan Context." <i>The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century</i>. Ed. P.J. Marshall. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.</p>
<p class="hang">Foucault, Michel. "Governmentality." <i>The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality</i>. Ed. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991. 87-104.</p>
<p class="hang">---. "What is Enlightenment?" <i>The Politics of Truth</i>. Ed. Sylv&#232;re Lotringer. New York: Semiotext(e), 1997.</p>
<p class="hang">Hunter, Ian. <i>Culture and Government: The Emergence of Literary Education</i>. London: Macmillan, 1988.</p>
<p class="hang">Leask, Nigel. <i>British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. 13.</p>
<p class="hang">Negri, Antonio. <i>Insurgencies</i>. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998.</p>
<p class="hang">Stoler, Ann Laura. <i>Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things</i>. Durham: Duke UP, 1995.</p>
<p class="hang">Viswanathan, Gauri. <i>Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India</i>. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.</p>
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Volume Technical Editor: Mike Duvall</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-authored-by-secondary- field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Authored by (Secondary):&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="role:AUT"><a href="/person/oquinn-daniel-j">O&amp;#039;Quinn, Daniel J.</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31532">Praxis Series</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/daniel-j-oquinn-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Daniel J. O&#039;Quinn</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1286" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">colonialism</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/682" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Orientalism</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/siraj-ahmed" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Siraj Ahmed</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/884" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">India in literature</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/l-m-findlay" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">L. M. Findlay</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/rita-raley" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Rita Raley</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/susan-taylor" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Susan Taylor</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/kate-teltscher" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Kate Teltscher</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-opencalais-person-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Person:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/thomas-moore" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Thomas Moore</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/rita-raley" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Rita Raley</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/person/sydney-owenson" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sydney Owenson</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/person/daniel-j-oquinn-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Daniel J. 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<br/></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-parent-section field-type-entityreference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Parent Section:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/31532">Praxis Series</a></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/tags/sexuality" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">sexuality</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/653" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">homosexuality</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/michel-foucault-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Michel Foucault</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/david-m-halperin-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">David M. Halperin</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/richard-sha" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Richard Sha</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/jillian-heydt-stevenson" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Jillian Heydt-Stevenson</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/susan-lanser" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Susan Lanser</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/bradford-mudge" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bradford Mudge</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/daniel-j-oquinn-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Daniel J. O&#039;Quinn</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/category/person/andrew-elfenbein" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Andrew Elfenbein</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-nines-discipline-s- field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">NINES Discipline(s):&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/nines-discipline/literature" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Literature</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-field-nines-type-s- field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-fulltext"><h2 class="field-label">NINES Type(s):&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/nines-type/typescript" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Typescript</a></li></ul></section>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:05:37 +0000rc-admin14968 at http://www.rc.umd.eduAbstractshttp://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/sexuality/abstracts.html
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<p style="text-align: center" class="smalltext"><a href="#sha">Richard C. Sha</a> | <a href="#loesberg">Jonathan Loesberg</a> | <a href="#fay">Elizabeth Fay</a> | <a href="#heydt">Jillian Heydt-Stevenson</a> | <a href="#lanser">Susan S. Lanser</a> | <a href="#mudge">Bradford K. Mudge</a> | <a href="#oquinn">Daniel O'Quinn</a> | <a href="#halperin">David M. Halperin</a> | <a href="#elfenbein">Andrew Elfenbein</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="sha" id="sha"> </a>Richard C. Sha,</b> "The Use and Abuse of Alterity: David Halperin and Percy Shelley on Ancient Greek Sexuality"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Through a comparison of Percy Shelley's understanding of the alterity of Ancient Greek Sex with David Halperin's, Sha argues that alterity functions on the one hand to insist upon the otherness of Greek sex, and, on the other hand, to declare one's self-consciousness about that otherness. Because self-consciousness and otherness are necessarily at odds, alterity has become a post-modern form of objectivity. Once one declares one's allegiances, one is free to make the other other.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="loesberg" id="loesberg"> </a>Jonathan Loesberg,</b> "Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">This article argues that what it calls hedgerow envy, a generalized sense of having a non-historical stake in the meaning of a historical narrative&#8212;which is part of its inauthenticity and its theory&#8212;is also a central part of how Foucault's history works, as well as the debates his history has incited and played a part in over the historical meaning of sexuality and homosexuality.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="fay" id="fay"> </a> Elizabeth Fay</b>, "Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Two Romantic Period women who were accustomed to public appearances used the semiotic play provided by deliberate dress choices to create public interpretations of their legible bodies: Mary Robinson and Princess Caroline. While Robinson carefully crafted her public image, she also varied it with fashionable rapidity so that she was always in the public eye due to her literal mobility among public spaces and her identity mobility. This flexible form of role playing allowed Robinson to adjust her public image as necessary. When the less adept Caroline of Brunswick attempted to create similar identity play for herself, the outcome was successful or disastrous in public opinion depending on her political backers. Caroline's body was pre-read through political screens, and unlike Robinson's careful identity managing, Caroline's costuming was directed at fighting or abetting such screens.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="heydt" id="heydt"> </a>Jillian Heydt-Stevenson,</b> "Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business": Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's Juvenilia<a href="javascript:openFootnote('heydt_notes.html#1')"> </a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">Austen's Juvenilia has generally been seen as the youthful expression of a nascent talent, a gathering of short and often fragmentary pieces that are typically nonsensical or bizarre, but infused throughout with her comic genius. This essay argues that this body of work, taken as a whole, has an intellectual unity and is informed by a consistent thread of appetitive excess that functions as a powerful critique of the kinds of constraints late 18th-century society imposed on young women. The heroines of the Juvenilia, in their often shocking or even illegal pursuit of love, food, drink, and material objects, not only display the power of a range of female desire, they also expose just what Austen's society was afraid of and sought to silence. Historical sources as well as psychoanalytic and feminist theory help us understand how Austen's counter-narratives expose the pervasiveness of repression and how powerful the female resistance to that denial could be, turning the kinds of violence society intends against women back out against the world. The mature Austen continues to explore these themes, even if in a less manic and more measured way.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="lanser" id="lanser"> </a>Susan S. Lanser,</b> "Put to the Blush: Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Without arguing for direct influence, this essay reads a group of English poems as an implicit Romantic conversation that advances different models of sapphic sublimity in a troplogical contest about the nature and place of female affinities. The essay begins by revisiting the exclusion of "Christabel" from the <i>Lyrical Ballads</i>, and goes on to discuss the implicit dialogue enacted through William Wordsworth's sonnet to the "Ladies of Llangollen" and Dorothy Wordsworth's poem "Irregular Verses." The essay concludes with a look at the metrical practices of these poems and of Shelley's "Rosalind and Helen," as a way to explore the ambivalences and ambiguities in Romantic configurations of female same-sex desire.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="mudge" id="mudge"> </a>Bradford K. Mudge,</b> "How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision"<a href="javascript:openFootnote('mudge_notes.html#*')"> </a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">This essay takes as its subject both the sexual body as represented in British romantic fiction and the imagination (is it "literary" or "pornographic"?) that was required to envision that body as a narrative event. Situated after the high watermark of "libertine literature" in the 1740s and 50s, but before the emergence of "pornography" proper in the 1830s and 40s, romantic fiction inherited the eighteenth century's conflicted attitudes about novelistic pleasure but was itself produced in a cultural marketplace that had not yet fixed and formulated the discursive opposition between "literature" and "pornography." The essay discusses these issues in dialogue with the historical and sexological discourse of Michel Foucault in <i>The History of Sexuality</i>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="oquinn" id="oquinn"> </a>Daniel O'Quinn</b>, "The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">The essay explores the notion of masochist nationalism through a reading of a brief passage in Equiano's <i>Interesting Narrative</i> in which Equiano engages with a young Musquito man named George. Equiano's attempt to convert George is tied to a mutual reading of Fox's <i>Book of Martyrs</i> which posits a community of aggrieved souls who will enact vengeance on the slave holders and on those who sanction slavery. The argument pays particular attention to how Equiano figures George in a complex economy of humiliation and revenge. This revenge becomes highly sexualized when Equiano shifts his allusions from Fox's <i>Book of Martyrs</i> to <i>The Book of Judges</i>. From this point onward Equiano's text is thoroughly involved in a series of rape fantasies which have important nationalist implications. Ultimately, the essay suggests that Equiano's most radical gesture in this scene is to stage politics from the ground of the object, but it also demonstrates how such a politics is susceptible to unforeseen consequences.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="halperin" id="halperin"> </a>David M. Halperin,</b> "'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">In his essay, Halperin responds to the essays collected in this issue, many of which respond to his book <i>How to Do the History of Homosexuality</i>, touching upon the history of sexuality, homosexuality, subjectivity, and desire, especially as reflected in the sexual discourse of Michel Foucault.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="elfenbein" id="elfenbein"> </a>Andrew Elfenbein,</b> "Romantic Loves: A Response to <i>Historicizing Romantic Sexuality</i>"</p>
<p style="text-align: left">Elfenbein's essay responds to the essays in <i>Historicizing Romantic Sexuality</i> by considering their usefulness in response to the work of Michel Foucault. He examines how each essay continues or complicates Foucault's ideas in <i>The History of Sexuality</i>. He examines Bradford Mudge's essay in terms of the agency of the novel, and the essays by Susan Lanser and Daniel O'Quinn in terms of coding. He discusses female agency in the essays by Elizabeth Fay and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson. For the essays by Richard Sha and Jonathan Loesberg, he examines how they treat identity and difference in relation to sexuality. He concludes by discussing the concept of love in Romanticism.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; margin-right: 5px">This volume of <i>Romantic Circles Praxis Series</i> includes an editor's introduction by <a href="#sha">Richard C. Sha</a>, essays by <a href="#sha">Richard C. Sha,</a><a href="#loesberg">Jonathan Loesberg,</a><a href="#fay">Elizabeth Fay,</a><a href="#heydt">Jillian Heydt-Stevenson,</a><a href="#lanser">Susan S. Lanser,</a><a href="#mudge">Bradford K. Mudge,</a><a href="#oquinn">Daniel O'Quinn,</a><a href="#halperin">David M. Halperin,</a> and <a href="#elfenbein">Andrew Elfenbein</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left">In <i>How To Do the History of Sexuality</i>,&#160; David M. Halperin puts to rest the idea that Michel Foucault meant in the <i>History of Sexuality</i> to separate sexual acts from identity. According to Halperin, Foucault never intended to encourage historians of sexuality to neglect the connections between sexual subjectivities and sexual acts. From this came the idea of creating a volume of essays that would take on the history of sexuality in the Romantic period, and in so doing use Halperin to rethink what we now know to be a pseudo-Foucaultian divorce between acts and identities, a divorce that has made sexual subjectivities before sexology an historical black hole. This volume is presented here.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">The <b>Romantic Circles Praxis Series</b> is devoted to using computer technologies for the contemporary critical investigation of the languages, cultures, histories, and theories of Romanticism. Tracking the circulation of Romanticism within these interrelated domains of knowledge, <b>RCPS</b> recognizes as its conceptual terrain a world where Romanticism has, on the one hand, dissolved as a period and an idea into a plurality of discourses and, on the other, retained a vigorous, recognizable hold on the intellectual and theoretical discussions of today. <b>RCPS</b> is committed to mapping out this terrain with the best and mo st exciting critical writing of contemporary Romanticist scholarship.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="sha" id="sha"> </a>Richard Sha</b> is completing <i>Perverse Romanticism</i>, a study of the relationship of aesthetics to sexuality in Britain from 1750-1830. He edited an earlier collection of essays on Romanticism and Sexuality for <i>Romanticism on the Net</i>, volume 23 (2001).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="loesberg" id="loesberg"> </a></b><b>Jonathan Loesberg</b> is a Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of three books, most recently, <i>A Return to Aesthetics: Autonomy, Indifference and Postmodernism</i> (Stanford, 2005).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="fay" id="fay"> </a>Elizabeth Fay</b> teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her most recent publication is <i>Romantic Medievalism</i> (2002).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="heydt" id="heydt"> </a>Jillian Heydt-Stevenson</b> is an Associate Professor in the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of <i>Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History</i> (Palgrave, 2005), as well as the associate editor of <i>Last Poems: 1821-1850</i> (Cornell Wordsworth, 1999). She has also published articles on Austen, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Burney.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="lanser" id="lanser"> </a>Susan S. Lanser</b> is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She has published widely in the fields of eighteenth century studies, narrative, women writers, and the history of sexuality. Publications most relevant to this contribution include essays in <i>Eighteenth-Century Studies</i>, the <i>Journal of Homosexuality</i>, <i>Textual Practice</i>, and the <i>Huntington Library Quarterly</i>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="mudge" id="mudge"> </a>Bradford K. Mudge</b> is a professor of English at the University of Colorado at Denver, focusing on eighteenth century literature and the Romantics. He is the author of four books, the latest being <i>The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830</i>. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. He is also preparing for publication two books on the artist Thomas Rowlandson.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="oquinn" id="oquinn"> </a>Daniel O'Quinn</b> is the author of <i>Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800</i> (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005). He has also published a number of essays on Romanticism, theatre and imperial fantasy in such venues as <i>Studies in Romanticism</i>, <i>ERR</i>, <i>ELH</i>, <i>Theatre Journal</i>, <i>TSLL</i> and <i>Romanticism on the Net</i>. He is currently co-editing <i>The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1737-1840</i> with Jane Moody.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="halperin" id="halperin"> </a>David M. Halperin</b> is the W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of English, Comp Lit, Women's Studies, and Classical Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Honorary Professor in the School of Sociology at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. His most recent book is <i>How to Do the History of Homosexuality</i> (2002); <i>Gay Shame</i>, edited with Valerie Traub, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left"><b><a name="elfenbein" id="elfenbein"> </a></b><b>Andrew Elfenbein</b> is the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is the author of <i>Byron and the Victorians</i> (1995) and <i>Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role</i> (1999).</p>
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